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@@ -284,6 +284,19 @@ ln -s "$PWD/assets/mailsync.sh" ~/bin/mailsync.sh A symlink rather than a copy, so the same script serves cron and the running application and there is only one of it to edit. +It writes to `~/.local/state/mailsync.log` itself, so a caller must **not** +redirect into that file as well. The obvious crontab line is the wrong one: + +```cron +*/10 * * * * ~/bin/mailsync.sh # right +*/10 * * * * ~/bin/mailsync.sh >> mailsync.log 2>&1 # every line twice +``` + +Rotation is left to `logrotate`, which does it better than a shell script can. +An earlier version rotated by size on its own and fought `/etc/logrotate.d/` +over the same file, overwriting a compressed generation with an uncompressed +one. + Two things any replacement has to get right, both learned the hard way: - **Print to stdout as well as any log file.** qtmaildir shows what the command |